Mention of doubles in 1966

[Valis]

The next article is taken from a dutch magazine in either September or October 1966 which I translated into english.

On the one hand I think it's a made up story because It is not noted in any other article I've got and there is no mention of a Beatle Protection Society or Ron Proctor anywhere online.
But the story really makes me think.

Here is first the article and after that some notes from me

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-The real and the fake Beatles-

America has it's own Beatles. They look like the real ones 100%, are just as tall and behave in the same way as John, Paul, George and Ringo.
They are called Ron, Bill, Keith and Tim: The Beatle Decoys.What is going on here?
In America exists The Beatles Protection Society, also called The Beatle Bobbies, whose job it is to protect The Beatles against the hysteria and idolatry of the fans on their American tours.
Recently the society realized an amazing plan; to form fake Beatles who have to camouflage the arrival and departure of the real Beatles at their concerts.
Like a month ago at the Baltimore Theatre: thousands of fans blocked the artistexit, waiting for The Beatles.
Suddenly Ringo Starr (a.k.a Ron Rictor) and Paul McCartney (a.k.a. Bill Davis) came outside and while they were under attack the real Beatles left through another exit.
The Beatle Decoy's are happy with their (double) life.
Ron, the leader, told us:"We even play the same instruments as The Beatles. Paul, I mean Keith is even lefthanded just like McCartney. We even wear the same clothes."
The fake Beatle that looks the most like the original is Keith Allison, who plays Paul.
He looks so alike that they even started a fanclub for him, the Keith Allison Fanclub.; he receives- as being Keith -1000 fanletters a day (!).
Keith Allison used to be bassplayer for the Crickets and was "discovered" by The BeatleProtection Society when he was a guest, sitting at a table, in the "Whiskey A Go Go (tv) Show".
After the broadcast hundreds of people called in to the show to ask: "Was that Paul McCartney?".
The producer, Dick Clark, was also struck by the resemblance and contracted the imitation Paul for 12 episodes of "Where the action is".

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I doubt this story because I have no other articles about this and the "new" names aren't found online, but ofcourse it might be a story that was not supposed to come out.
There were doubles in 1966, and I am 100% sure that the article is from that period; it's from my mother's collection.

1.how would a dutch mag know about that Keith Allison, he is a good Fakepaul, so him being mentioned lends some credibility to this story

2.The doublenames of all 4 Beatles are called, Paul has got a double double name: Bill!!! and Keith Allison

3.a Beatle Protection society, huh? come on that must be a joke

4.They are a decoy for the Beatles travels, but also make music!?

5.They are a decoy but Keith already has a fanclub!?

6. I've seen photos of Keith so I know he is not Bill, but something happened in those days surely, involving doubles.

7. I googled on Keith Allison and got this page: www.psycho-jello.com/monkees/standphotos.html , which was directly followed by a page about the Monkees' stand ins www.psycho-jello.com/monkees/keith1.html , more doubles

here's a scan from the original article, I hope I can get up a bigger scan later.
It might be a bit hard to read, and even though most of you don't speak Dutch, I put it up as proof, that I didn't make this story up myself.



All Love Jan

[LOVELYRITA]

Thanks for that post. I've heard Keith Allison's name mentioned in regards to looking like JPM, but I don't know if I've ever seen them.
JoJo, do you have any pics of Keith?

I do find it strange that the Paul alter is named Bill.

I wonder if this is a little bit truth and alot of crap mixed together?
Beatles Protection Society? Could this be a Cute way of covering a CIA operation?
Maybe taking something that is truth and candy coating alot of the information?
Hmmmm just a thought.

[JoJo]

Some Keith pics in this thread

[-Wings-]

Interesting. I've never heard of Allison filling a role quite like that, and I think it's odd that they mention a "Bill Davis" as well.

This is definitely something to look in to.

[lili]

Here's the Keith Allison pics from that 1st link:





I think that he vaguely resembles Paul. I'm sure that could've been greatly enhanced with some plastic surgery.
I also think that there is some merit to that story. I have heard that Paul started to become disillusioned sometime in 1965. By 1966, I think that he had about had it with the whole scene. That would account for doubles being brought in for days that they couldn't get him to cooperate.
Just IMHO of course.

[JoJo]

Just making it a little bigger, but it probably needs a rescan at a higher dpi: (when you have a chance of course)

[JoJo]

Hey, looks like "The Scream"..

[beatlies]

John Lennon's "aah" in "A Day in the Life" is like "The Scream"'s vocal equivalent.

[LOVELYRITA]

jojo said:

Hey, looks like "The Scream"..

How about the beginning of Revolution?

Helter Skelter screams come to mind as well. That song sounded like car accident or someone being thrown out of a plane....It sounds like death.

[JoJo]

Sorry about this, but I misplaced this much clearer scan Jan sent me, just found it..

[linus]

interesting

[maxedison]

If you notice in the article it says "Ron,Bill,Keith and Tim. Later it says Bill Davis(aka Paul McCartney) and then says Keith Played Paul McCartney.
So they mention 2 people playing Paul. Was that a typo and Bill was actually playing John or George? Or did they just get confused with their own Lie?
It is well known that doubles were used to distract fans from the "Real Beatles". That is mentioned in several "Beatles" Documentaries.
The Paul from "Rubber Soul" era looked more like Sylvester Stalone than Paul McCartney. This could Be Keith Allison with Makup to look more like Paul. He had a Fatter face than the others.

[silverbeatle]

Is KEITH ALLISON still alive? Can anyone interview him and ask him questions pertaining to being a Paul stand in? An associate of mine is friendly with Mark Lindsey, that's another possible channel to go to as perhaps he knows something.

[LOVELYRITA]

I took a quick google and found his facebook, and he is still alive, and bald....and you can see him with Fingo when they announced Fingo alone is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...He sure don't look like Paul now...LOLOL...not a candidate to be a fake Faul now...

I don't belong to facebook, but if someone does, perhaps they can ask him about that era. Didn't know he had anything to do with Paul Revere and the Raiders...